https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/02/17/a-bright-spot-on-the-cultural-landscape/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 07:55:45 -0400<![CDATA[Back in 2006, I wrote about a conspicuous, if quiet, bright spot on the troubled countenance of contemporary art: The Harlem Studio of Art, which was presided over by the artists Judith Pond Kudlow and Andrea Smith.  “The school,” I wrote at the time, “offers students something almost unheard of today: rigorous training in modeling, one-point perspective, cast drawing, and all the other technical aspects of art that, based in Renaissance practice, one used to assume would be part of an artist’s training but, for at least the last five or six decades, have gone the way of good manners and other accoutrements of civilization.”]]>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:31:48 -0500<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2013/02/16/a-bright-spot-on-the-cultural-landscape-n117378